Jokes aside, to an early PhD student, this meeting was one of the most promising things I have seen for the future of neuroscience research.

No one lab will solve the problem of cognition, to understand how the brain works we will eventually need to combine our data

Two ideas from the workshop that made me unspeakably happy were:

We need a cultural shift in neuroscience (and all scientific) research, which places greater emphasis on sharing data, and rewards openness

Digital research (code & simulation) needs to be repeatable. That means using tools like GitHub and DockerHub to track your work.

There were a lot of big ideas at the workshop – terms like reproducible science and fixing research were tossed around. But we can also start small. Here are a few easy things you can implement right now: